Keep NYC Schools Open

05/06/2021

ACTION ALERT
Following up on last week's successful candidate forum & rally, make sure to sign the petition calling for accountability & transparency in full reopening of schools.

Sign the petition demanding the immediate reopening of NYC public schools, 5 days a week, with certified educators teaching in the classroom.

04/09/2021

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04/05/2021

With the 2 case rule now in the dustbin of arbitrary regulations, our message of transparency and accountability is more important than ever! This is precisely when de Blasio and City Hall hope attention will be diverted. But what is his plan to reopen? What is City Hall's timeline for September full reopening milestones?

Science based rules, not union concessions, must guide this process!

Sign the petition calling for transparency and accountability!

Sign the petition demanding the immediate reopening of NYC public schools, 5 days a week, with certified educators teaching in the classroom.

03/29/2021

This is from Ray McGuire who is running for NYC Mayor.

The time for silence is long past. It is time for all mayoral candidates, city council incumbents & candidates to come forward and hold Mayor De Blasio & the UFT accountable for keeping our children out of school 20/21 academic year and holding them hostage to union politics.

Parents must be informed about plans for the rest of the academic year, the summer and September so we can prepare accordingly.

POLICYEducation Get kids and teachers back in school quickly and safely. Our schools are the centers of our communities, providing not only education, but also meals and social support to children and families. Now that most teachers have been vaccinated, it is time for kids to return to class and ...

03/26/2021

Our fearless leader...

For many Americans, watching the first person in the United States receive the COVID-19 vaccine was the first step on the long road back to normalcy. It was the beginning of the end: of a year of a…

03/23/2021

If you haven't already, please take a moment to visit our website and/or to share it with others. It includes lots of suggestions and opportunities to further advocate for the reopening of our schools! And don't forget to sign up for the email list to get the latest alerts about upcoming rallies and other action opportunities (in English AND Spanish!)
www.KeepNYCSchoolsOpen.org

03/10/2021

RALLY TO on March 13, ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF CLOSED SCHOOLS.

Meet parents, teachers, coaches & KIDS at 11 am, front of Tweed Hall, DOE offices.

Simultaneous rallies to occur around the U.S. where 50% of students remain REMOTE

03/09/2021

Yesterday, Mayor de Blasio made a very bold statement promising that all schools will be full-time in Fall 2021.

This morning, our new Chancellor Porter has already begun to backpedal.

Parents who have been in the trenches for the past 6 months understand what this means. We cannot stop advocating for our children to return to school FULL TIME - 5 days per week, and taught by a Teacher in a classroom.

"“In the fall, really using the health, medical recommendations, making the best decisions to open as fully as we possibly can,” she said."

Native New Yorker and longtime educator Meisha Ross Porter is about to become the first Black woman to run New York City public schools, the country’s largest school system. Porter was announ…

03/08/2021

Responds to Mayor’s Decision to Reopen High School Buildings in March, Resume Sports in April

“We are thrilled to hear that New York City public high school student athletes will be able to resume playing in April,” said Daniela Jampel, spokesperson. “However, we are disappointed that Mayor Bill de Blasio chose to only reopen high school buildings and allow a small fraction of students return to in-person ‘hybrid’ learning one or two times a week. We will continue to advocate for the more than 80 percent of high school students who remain trapped in full-time remote instruction, indefinitely.”

03/07/2021

Saturday March 13 will mark a year since NYC public schools closed.

While many private and parochial schools reopened by fall, NYC public schools have remained more closed than open, repeatedly shutting down for the "2 Case Rule," spacing kids an excessive 8 ft apart in classrooms thereby severely reducing days kids can attend in-person, using monitors and plugging kids into devices in middle schools, and transforming high schools into vaccination sites. The UFT - United Federation of Teachers has repeatedly stood in the way of school reopening, and refused to tie teacher vaccination to a mandated return to teaching in the classroom.

demands a full return to school, five days a week, in person, with live teachers (not monitors and screens) for our city's 1 million public school children. We know this can be done safely and immediately impact children who are suffering in remote and restore families who need to get back to work and normalcy.

What do we want? OPEN SCHOOLS! When do we want it? NOW!

This timeline offers a look at how a full year of living and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded.